7 
Average daily receipts from admissions $76 58 
The largest amount of receipts at the gates on any- 
one day was on Wednesday, July 4th 679 19 
Total Receipts on the several days of the week, and their respective 
averages for 1894--9S. 
Rank. 
Days. 
Total Receipts. 
Average. 
1 
Sunday 
$10,377 63 
$199 57 
2 
Saturday 
6,712 36 
129 08 
3 
Wednesday 
2,821 76 
54 26 
4 
Thursday 
2,424 43 
45 74 
5 
1,975 52 
37 99 
6 
Friday 
1,847 12 
35 52 
7 
Tuesday 
1,792 54 
34 47 
$27,951 36 
It may be regarded as certain that conditions more gen- 
erally unfavorable to the financial prosperity of the Society 
have never existed than during the past year. The state 
of business deeply affecting the whole visiting public, the 
intense heat of the summer, and the length and severity of 
the winter, each played its part in reducing the admission 
receipts to a point so much below the necessary charges 
of maintenance that the opinion expressed in the report 
of last year may be emphasized — that the continuance of 
the Gardens through this term of depression would have 
been impossible, but for the appropriation made by the 
City Councils to the Commissioners of Fairmount Park. 
The portion of this appropriation which was available 
only for permanent improvement of the grounds, was ex- 
pended in building the foundations and walls of a house 
for monkeys. The construction of this building will be 
proceeded with during the coming year, and if any con- 
siderable reaction should take place in the affairs of the 
Society it is hoped that it may be ready for occupancy by 
the autumn of 1896. 
By order of the Board. 
HENRY T. COATES, 
Secretary. 
